Fantastic television! Just watched your "Rod Steiger with Bob Costas" which was great! Really enjoying your choice of content, I take my hat off to you!
I love Duvall but the ironic thing he said about godfather being romanticized is that real mafia members said Vito was the most realistic representation of a don
I was hoping Costas would ask about the script for Godfather 3 that included Tom Hagen. How good was it? How much was changed or was lost when Duvall backed out?
Duvall is SPOT ON with everything he said about the ridiculous embarrassment that was the third one. The audience I saw it with? They LAUGHED at it. It was a movie nobody was waiting or asking for, or wondering about. It was so obviously a studio cash-in.....and it came out the same year as "Goodfellas"! It came out the same year as "The Freshman"! Both of those are fifty times better (and funnier) than the (already-funny) "Godfather Part 3". I remember when I heard Duvall wasn't going to be in it, I immediately knew this was not going to be as good. PS: Duvall at that time was an Oscar winner; Pacino hadn't yet won his. Both were always mentioned in the same list of the great 70s actors: Pacino, Duvall, De Niro, Nicholson, Hackman, Hoffman. Every one of those guys were routinely cited as the best of their generation, and it's hard to argue.
Probably had to cut the scene for time… forced by the studio… I saw a long cut without credits at the Cinerama Dome but that wasn’t the final movie that was released.
Why do we have to suffer through listening to someone narrate that which is evident and told much better in the actual Costas interview? Why? Hey guy, These Later shows are archived and all his interviews stand on their own with many in two or three parts so why are you being a fool and explaining it? Just shut up and let us enjoy the real host of the show, Bob Costas. Geez.
The intros are required by CZcams for me to be able to share as much as I do. You are incorrect about the shows being archived. The masters perished in the Universal Warehouse fire. That is why I get requests constantly (CNN History of sitcom, Late Night). Sorry to make you endure me...enjoy the recording I made and archived for decades
Man oh man, this interview is fantastic. Yet again, thanks for posting all this great stuff.
Another interesting chat, Duvall easy and relaxed, good to listen to. Amazingly, he is still around. Bill Costas - entertaining as ever
Superb interview!
Fantastic television! Just watched your "Rod Steiger with Bob Costas" which was great! Really enjoying your choice of content, I take my hat off to you!
Same
When I first saw this interview I thought the same thing
Awesome interview by Costas
Costas did a great job on this one!
I never thought Pacino was better than Robert Duvall., I saw more tv and movies with Robert Duvall holding his own.
I love Duvall but the ironic thing he said about godfather being romanticized is that real mafia members said Vito was the most realistic representation of a don
I was hoping Costas would ask about the script for Godfather 3 that included Tom Hagen. How good was it? How much was changed or was lost when Duvall backed out?
The Helicopter scene was hilariously bad 😂
Duvall is SPOT ON with everything he said about the ridiculous embarrassment that was the third one. The audience I saw it with? They LAUGHED at it. It was a movie nobody was waiting or asking for, or wondering about. It was so obviously a studio cash-in.....and it came out the same year as "Goodfellas"! It came out the same year as "The Freshman"! Both of those are fifty times better (and funnier) than the (already-funny) "Godfather Part 3". I remember when I heard Duvall wasn't going to be in it, I immediately knew this was not going to be as good. PS: Duvall at that time was an Oscar winner; Pacino hadn't yet won his. Both were always mentioned in the same list of the great 70s actors: Pacino, Duvall, De Niro, Nicholson, Hackman, Hoffman. Every one of those guys were routinely cited as the best of their generation, and it's hard to argue.
Probably had to cut the scene for time… forced by the studio… I saw a long cut without credits at the Cinerama Dome but that wasn’t the final movie that was released.
GF3 was ass. Good for Bobby D
Why do we have to suffer through listening to someone narrate that which is evident and told much better in the actual Costas interview? Why? Hey guy, These Later shows are archived and all his interviews stand on their own with many in two or three parts so why are you being a fool and explaining it? Just shut up and let us enjoy the real host of the show, Bob Costas. Geez.
The intros are required by CZcams for me to be able to share as much as I do. You are incorrect about the shows being archived. The masters perished in the Universal Warehouse fire. That is why I get requests constantly (CNN History of sitcom, Late Night). Sorry to make you endure me...enjoy the recording I made and archived for decades